On Jul 4, 2012, at 8:39 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
On 7/4/12, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
IMO, leap seconds are a really bad idea. Let the vanishingly few people who care about a precision match against the solar day keep track of the deviation from clock time and let everybody else have a *simple* clock year after year. When the deviation increases to an hour every what, thousand years? Then you can do a big, well publicized correction where everybody is paying attention to making it work instead of being caught by surprise. [snip]
Instead of having leap seconds; redraw the world timezone map, so that the boundaries of every time zone are shifted by a distance in feet that corresponds to one second; and such that after a thousand years and an hour's worth of leap seconds, the physical locations of the timezones will have shifted just so far, that there is a 1 hour adjustment. :)
-- -JH
Given that we don't seem to be able to eliminate the absurdity of DST, I doubt that either of those proposals is likely to fly. Owen